Head Medical Affairs

A leading pharmaceutical company has a vacancy for a Head of Medical Affairs

Job Purpose:

The Head Medical Affairs will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive medical and scientific strategy, fostering scientific evidence generation and facilitating information exchange with key stakeholders. This role plays a pivotal external role in supporting healthcare professionals to enhance patient care and treatment outcomes through evidence-based decision-making and support.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated medico-marketing strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders.
• Your role involves providing strategic input for the elaboration of brand plans and ensuring that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
• You will review and approve medical and scientific content across various departments, provide guidance to marketing and sales teams, and coordinate scientific activities such as webinars, Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, Advisory Board meetings, and Preceptorship programs.
• Your role includes preparing scientific agendas, providing literature and presentation support, providing strategic support for new product launches and existing products, offering medical and scientific strategy for new launches, and providing strategic Life Cycle Management (LCM) inputs for existing products.
• You will provide strategic direction for communicating with external customers, key organizations, and institutions, collaborate with commercial teams to address questions and opportunities, inform stakeholders of unmet needs, and facilitate appropriate approaches to address them. You will also interact with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings.
• You will develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics, professionals, and patient associations, leveraging prior knowledge and established relationships with key opinion leaders (KOL).
• Ensuring the scientific integrity of information and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups is paramount in your role.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities, including the selection of speakers, determining Fair Market Value (FMV), and evaluating participation criteria. Your role involves identifying needs for post-marketing programs and managing their end-to-end execution.
• Your role entails evaluating new products to enhance the portfolio, providing medical rationale and analysis for selected products to Business Development, Portfolio, and Centre of Excellence (CoE) teams, and conducting Advisory Board meetings to gather opinions from KOLs on new products.
• You will collaborate with the Training Manager to enhance training programs on diseases and competitor products, supporting in developing content, conducting training sessions for new launches, as well as providing scientific updates on existing products.
• You will lead and contribute to a system of competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications, compiling and circulating regular scientific updates on major brands and therapy areas to keep stakeholders informed and up-to-date.
• You will be responsible for ensuring a patient-centric approach to the development of medical strategy for products, devices and services. This involves providing support for digital activities and quality review of digital content.
• Your role entails supporting market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing product features.
• You will collaborate with central product teams to develop product roadmaps tailored to user needs and market demands and plan product releases.
• You will engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand market challenges and business opportunities in various therapy areas.
• You will also lead discussions with potential partners and service providers to enable new services and revenue streams around the product.
• You will support the planning and monitoring of product Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), pilots, and launch activities in the market, working closely with the central product team.
• You will oversee data generation activities and contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programs for key products.

Qualifications, Experience, Skills & Attributes:

Degree in Medicine

Minimum work experience:

5 years of industry experience in Medical Affairs

Skills & Attributes:

• In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes.
• Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent “leadership presence” to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
• Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making.
• High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while working demonstrating sound scientific judgment.
• Comfortable in operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
• Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behaviour.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence.

Candidates that meet the criteria may submit their applications via this portal or via vacancy link on www.mnarecruitment.com

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